Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 402
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 402 he accepted those sufferings with great pleasure and delight but did not abandon this path. Now, if there was no pleasure and enjoyment in it, then what was the reason that he endured those sufferings and difficulties? It was that same pleasure that is found in the love of Almighty Allah, whose parallel and par- adigm cannot be presented by anyone. The Purpose of Establishing the Jam a ‘at is to Develop Love for God At this time, God Almighty has desired, by sending a truthful person, to prepare a Jam a ‘at that loves Almighty Allah. I see that some weak, cowardly people enter [the Jam a ‘at] and then when they receive a trivial threat and people intimidate them, they write a letter saying that they have done some t aqiyyah. 1 Tell me, did the Prophets, peace be on them, do this kind of taqiyyah? Never, ever. They are brave and do not care about any adversity and suffering. They cannot conceal whatever they have come with, even if there isn’t a single person in the world to support them. They do not love the world. Their Beloved is only the One God. They are content to be killed, not once, but even a thou- sand times, while traversing this path. Understand from this that if there is no pleasure and enjoyment in a true relationship with Almighty Allah, then why does this group put up with this suffering? Read the accounts of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, how much suffering was inflicted upon him by the disbelievers. His assassination 1. In Malf uza t, vol. 10, dated 10 February 1908, the Promised Messiah as has de- scribed taqiyyah as to ‘disavow one’s faith wherever overpowered or when one sees his own interest being jeopardized’. [Publisher]